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What do NFTs and Tom Brady have in common? 🏈
What do NFTs and Tom Brady have in common? They're both making a super bowl appearance....(although Tom Brady's might just be in an FTX commercial 🤣) In Today’s Email: FTX raises a $2B Venture FundNouns Super Bowl CommercialGemini goes after the wealth manager marketFTX Raises a $2B FundHere’s 3 reasons I find this interesting: This......
What Joe Rogan Thinks of Axie Infinity
In Today’s Email: Is Defi Kingdoms the future of finance?The Fan Controlled Football League goes full web3Axie Infinity Makes a Guest Appearance on Joe RoganThe Crown $JEWEL of DefiFirst, we had pay-to-play games: we bought NBA 2K every year for $60.Then we had free-to-play games like Fortnite.Then we had play-to-earn games like Axie Infinity.Now we......
The Crypto Billionaire Who Just Passed The Wal-Mart Kids
In Today’s Email: Friends With Benefits launches a music festivalThe crypto dude worth ~$100B ! Friends With Benefits FestivalFor a couple years, I had a membership to The Battery in San Francisco. It was great. It’s a private members club. Like SoHo House in NYC. In one night at the Battery, I saw Dave Chappelle at the bar......
What Citadel’s Paradigm Investment Means
In Today’s Email: Citadel moving into crypto? Argentina inflation hits 52% Coinbase Offers Employees 4 ‘Recharge Weeks’Citadel Raises $1B+ From Paradigm and SequoiaCitadel is a market maker - essentially a used car salesman for the market. They buy an asset and hold it (ideally for as short as possible) until they can find a buyer......
OpenSea Gets Attacked
Shaan still has covid, so I’m flying solo on the email today (Ben)In Today’s Email: A “Vampire Attack” on OpenseaVote On My Deep DiveStartups That Caught My EyeOpenSea Vampire AttackOpenSea is the big dog when it comes to NFT trading (just valued at $13B), and that’s bringing on competition. In Web2.0 - if you launch......
The Case Against Web3
Shaan’s got covid (ouch.) - so I’ll be taking over the email this week (Ben). Reply to let me know what you think!In Today’s Email: The case against Web3What happens to your crypto when you dieThe Australian Open's NFTWhy Web3 Won't Work“Moxie”, the founder of Signal (the privacy focused Whatsapp) published a blog post pointing......
The Road To $10M
In Today’s Email: The Road to $10M Nas’s First NFT LaunchTwitter Gems 💎Turning $1M -> $10MI gave myself a challenge, to turn $1M into $10M this year in crypto. It’s not about the money, it’s about the learning and friends we make along the way. (Ok, it’s about the money)A couple clarifications:I’m not a day......
WTF Happened To Crypto Prices Yesterday?!
In Today’s Email: Why Crypto Prices CrashedOpensea Is now worth $13.3BAirbnb’s most requested feature is crypto paymentsP.S. welcome to all the first time readers. Reply to this email to let me know if you love it, or hate it. WTF Happened in the Markets Yesterday?!ETH is down 11%, Bitcoin is down 8%, and I’ve smoked 13 cigarettes......
Mr. Wonderful is now Mr. Crypto
In Today’s Email: A new DAO Raises $10M Toward Buying a Golf CourseShark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Backed Company Buys a Canadian ExchangeCoinbase CEO just got a $133m house!A DAO Raises $10m to Buy A Golf CourseHere’s one major use case of DAOs today: strangers pooling money together to buy crazy shit. A couple months ago,......
Gary Vee’s New NFT Restaurant 🎣
In Today's Email:Polymarket pays a $1.4M legal settlementGary Vee unveils his NFT restaurant plansPolymarket Fined Polymarket is a website that lets you bet on anything, from sports to “will Chris Cuomo launch a substack by January 10th (98% of people are betting “No”, sorry Chris).And yesterday, they settled for $1.4m with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission......
